Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed)
4:00 pm
Mr. Tom Parlon:
The big challenge for the industry is that the costs are rising but the tender prices are not rising accordingly. One of the biggest costs was the introduction of the sectoral employment order, SEO, last year which caused a 10% increase in wage rates right across the skilled workforce overnight.